February 2016

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We have spoken in the past about the differences between Traditional Concrete and Recycled Concrete, and the significant role Recycled Concrete can play in not only reducing Carbon Emissions, but creating a sustainable, greener alternative to more traditional methods of Concrete manufacture. In this blog we’ll take a look at just what Precast Concrete is, how […]

Concrete Lego Block Weight Dimensions As we have diversified our Product range for 2016 we felt it would be a good opportunity to now write a blog on the weight and dimensions of our Concrete Lego Blocks to give customers and potential customers a good indication of exact dimensions and weight of our blocks. This […]

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Retaining Wall Birkett House We were contacted by Mark Hill the Senior Build Manager for Willmott Dixon Construction to see if we could help on one of his sites with the design and build of a fast track build retaining wall. Mark sent over the requirement and we quickly produced a 3D SketchUp drawing for […]

Fish Ladder Concrete Blocks Scotland has long-harnessed water energy through weirs and other structures. Although power is now largely sourced from other industries, many of the weirs still remain, preventing fish species such as salmon from migrating upstream to their natural spawning areas. Two abandoned weirs on the Avon Water in South Lanarkshire – Ferniegair […]

Gabion Basket v Concrete Blocks to Build Retaining Walls We are frequently asked what is the cost difference and benefits between the construction of a retaining wall using gabion baskets or concrete blocks. In a nutshell the differences are: Cost difference – Gabion baskets are more competitive to build Life span – Concrete blocks have […]

Flood Protection For Commercial Assets Flood protection is an economic problem as well as a human one. It’s not just people’s homes and the misery this causes when the flood water rises, the problem is bigger than this. Flooding can effect sewerage plants causing environmental and health issues. It can cause substations to cut out […]

Flood Wall Design Good flood wall design is important. There are temporary flood protection walls that can be constructed during a flood as the flood water begins to rise. And there are permeant flood protection walls in areas that have a high risk of flooding. The design principles are much the same as we are dealing […]

Flood Protection Solutions We are engineers, supporting engineers to find flood protection solutions. I remember as a child using my imagination to build all sorts of things using lego blocks. I am still doing it today at the age of 60. We manufacture interlocking concrete lego blocks. My job now is to use my imagination […]

Concrete Lego Blocks Price We thought we would give you an idea of how we price our block walls. Our concrete lego blocks price is determined using a few variables. Most clients ask for a price per block but this can be confusing as you are actually buying a wall. At BlockWalls we manufacture and […]

Interlocking Retaining Wall Blocks Before we talk about interlocking retaining wall blocks, let me show you how a retaining wall fails. Once we understand the concepts we can use interlocking retaining wall blocks to solve the problem. The image below shows the failure modes of a block retaining wall: There are five main failure modes. […]

Waste Management Blogs UK Here at Blockwalls, our Concrete Lego Block products are used across many industries, including Construction, Demolition, Flood Defence, Agriculture, and Transport to name but a few, however one of the biggest markets for our products over the past couple of years has been to the Waste Management and Recycling sector […]

Saltley Scrap Yard Fire After recent events in the West Midlands which seen over 800m tonnes of metal and plastic, set ablaze at a Recycling Centre, there is an increasing focus on the correct segregation of flammable waste at sites all over the UK. […]